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April 23, 2014
Book Review - A stitch in time: Heirloom Knitting Skills by Rita Taylor
Non-Fiction reviewed by Wendy This is a very easy to read and use guide, explaining the origin of stitches and placing knitting squarely in the 21st century. Divided into Textured, Twisted, Raised, Cable and Lace Stitches and Colourwork, each section provides an exploration of the history and usage around the world. It made sense that Fair Isle and other colourwork patterns not only made use of different coloured wools that may not have been enough for a garment on their own but also provided additional warmth with the additional layers of wool carrying under the pattern. From the warmth and practicality of working jumpers, to the luxury of lightweight lace work, each section includes a comprehensive stitch listing, for example, 34 lace stitch patterns are included. Twelve complete project patterns covering each of the sections including a Fairisle sweater, a lacy shawl, a bobble hat and a cable cardigan enable you to put these heirloom skills into modern-day practice. I very much liked a baby blanket made in squares with a raised leaf pattern and a blackberry stitch border and it may have given me confidence to try a fair-isle pattern – which became popular after Edward, Prince of Wales, appeared wearing one in a magazine in the 20s!
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Salt Lake Tribune's golden cartoonist, Pat Bagley, sums up so much of the difficulty we face in policy debates and discussions these days:
Especially "trickle-down" economics.
Salt Lake Tribune's golden cartoonist, Pat Bagley, sums up so much of the difficulty we face in policy debates and discussions these days:
Especially "trickle-down" economics.
"We face real disasters. The beef industry, wheat farmers, and shipping on the Mississippi have already been hammered this year"
What about last year? What about next year…its called weather!!!!
Yes I will read more carefully the newspapers printing of dud scare predictions ..in search in vain for a correction of past dud predictions.
temperature have not risen for 13 years , this is odds with AGW …would you advise your students caution in there whole hearted acceptance of AGW ? Would you a least try and promote the ideals of scientic inquiry?
Fast Eddy
"So, reality has no place in your odd "worldview," and disasters are the responsibility of others"
Oh dear…what 'disasters' and who are the 'others'? All the disasters I mentioned were 'scares' based in AGW which I read in newspapers. So malaria isnt returning – great now your on board with me ! But why did the newspaper print it? I am confused that you told me to read more newspapers…….because they only report the scares and then it goes down the memory hole.
And also , has the IPCC never ever issued predictions or warnings based on its modelling of future global warming? Reality and odd worldviews indeed.
Natural courses will of course go their own way, it is stupefying to think that we can do anything about it. Is the scale of warming "un-natural" , now your starting to sound like a religious nutter – how do we know that they are unnatural , be because we have no records- please! We know it has been much hotter with greater CO2 levels and life reigned supreme!
I don't consider CO2 a pollutant- so I am not 'pro-pollutant' and what a dull thing to say! – CO2 is plant food, we know that the great evolutionary explosions happened when CO2 where many times higher than today…are you anti-life? If life is formed from carbon , wouldn't any grand design provide a feed back loop, a way for Carbon to reintroduced into the life-chain? Your thinking is limited – you assume that we are outside nature , when we sit within it.
As for prevention analogy, you lay your cards on the table , it doesn't matter to you whether AGW is real or not, it's the sentiment, it feels wrong. I say to you , is it wise to spend Billions to prevent something that is the un preventable, like Climate change? Is is wise to drive up food prices due to the ethanol subsidy…. Killing people through starvation – oh they are only poor brown coloured people in far way places , so as long as you can fill the car with E10 you can feel good about saving the planet.
Again: Temperatures are just going up and down from year to year by tiny amounts. All the results are explicable as temperatures having reached a plateau wherein they differ only in hundredths of a degree from year to year. A plateau will produce lots of warm years too. It doesn't need a warming trend- and this is what's ben happening for 13 years. If the theory has contra indications, then it places the theory in doubt. Will you acknowledge this point?
your blog , let you have the last word…
Ed and JK
I have no dog in the fight, I believe we should not be in Iraq , Afghanistan , or , even if it's just planes and logistics – Libya or Syria. We cannot supplant democracy to lands where Islam blooms. We must separate ourselves as I have outlined previously. Bush is not a monster , he was a fool that believed that M.E people want Western style freedom..they don't , the Middle East wants Islam…so leave it to them. Obama is a fool because he thinks he can ingratiate himself with the Muslim world…nope, an American dead in Benghazi today- Muslims hate us because of who we are. They probably hate you guys more because your are a bunch of liberals….even as you open the door so very wide to them , because more diversity and tolerance is what makes you feel so morally good. Living up to your liberal ideals –even if it kills you. Me – I say we discriminate like crazy.
James K (" Jimmy the Knife")
"Sorry, David, despite your delusion to the contrary creationism is not an alternative to the theory of evolution. "
Do actually read what I have written or do you argue with the conservative caricature that lives in your head? The survey asked whether Humans are a result of evolution guided by god? This is a from of Intelligent design theory- it is a form of creationism. If you don't believe God has any relationship to how man was created – then how can you be a Christian or any other theist?
So everything must not change? There has been no climate change until- man kind industrialized itself? So Man can stop 'climate change'? We can stop the oceans from rising – yep that's change we can believe in. No , we cannot stop climate change.
Climate is always changing. Fullstop! There is an underlying cycle or process that pre-dates mankind. Correlation is not causation – that increased Co2 has occurred during the less than one degree temperature rise in the last century ( the majority of it in the first half) – does not mean it is the predominate cause , again the underlying climate process that has changed the earth's climates for eons must be separated out. This is hard to do.
You cite all these disasters, but there have always been disasters, there has always been weather, and new records being set, that is the essence of a complex changing system. So a record drought —wow, its called weather. As to Big Wildfires , how about greenies stopping back-burning to prevent fuel loads being too high.
The earth has stopped heating for the last decade and a bit. Yes your news articles all say that there are records, but the temperatures aren't varying by much and are oscillating around a plateau. That's why they are talking 9th warmist year and the warmist decade ever…..but the temperature has stopped for 12 years …so where does that leave AGW theory? There is SOMETHING else going on, another underlying process. This should get you pause at least….?
IPCC has published numerous reports. It is an organization that requires that AGW theory to be true. Each of its reports have reduced there alarmist predictions to the point where even if the prediction now come true , the changes will be manageable. So as we know more, we have more understanding ,and the risks seem less. I am no counting the usual arctic ice scares( and what of the Antarctic), polar bears, coral bleaching, return of malaria( lucky we still have DTT) etc and an unending liternany of dud predictions that get reported in the 4 estate but never corrected because good news is NO news. ..This is the IPCC
It's beautiful—and just proves my point that every time you turn around, science discovers something that proves earlier presumptions wrong. But the scientists never learn from being repeatedly being proved wrong; they always believe that "this time, they have it right." A little humility would go a long way with you people.
Nope there's no global warming going on..it's all made up….Uhhuh. ANd if you believe that I'll tell you where Jimmy Hoffa is buried:
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It was also illegal war conducted by Obama , with consent from Republicians. Democracts protest even legal wars – emocracts must think hypocrisy is a strenght.
The Iraq war may have been "legal" but it sure wasn't just, child. It was a collossal waste of time, money and especially lives. That's why we protested it.
And if our involvement in Libya had been in your view a "legal" war you wouldn't have protested it? OH please. You still would have opposed it because of the Big Scary Black man in the White House.
Sorry, David, despite your delusion to the contrary creationism is not an alternative to the theory of evolution. it's not science, it's not theory, it's nothing more then a misbegotten religious belief born out of a misinterpretation of Genesis. Creationism is the mutant bastard child of the Creation account and any Christian believing in Creationism is engaging in hearsay.
Because Creationism at its most basic says that God is a sociopathic liar.
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Over 70 percent of Republicans and Democrats belief in creationism- either the extreme young earth version or the ID version.
Yeah except for that figure is wrong for Democrats. We're not so stupid.
As for the 70% of Republicans believe in Creationism..yeah that really just proves the adage about if 50 million people believe a foolish thing…it's still a foolish thing.
Sorry, this is not a game of popularity. This is a game of facts and there simply are none to back Creationism and quite a lot to back evolution.
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Obama did it to Kaddhafi , who was on cordial terms with the US , and let the mob rip him apart. A drone stopped Kaddhafi from fleeing and directly resulted in his death
You mean the Kaddhafi that was as much a mass murderer as Saddam Hussein that your side insisted we had to take out no matter what? Even if the result was a cesspool of terrorists and the Islamics taking over? At least what Obama did didn't bankrupt the country and cost American troops their lives in a pointless war. that by itself puts him leagues ahead of Bush and the GOP.
Same goes with Egypt.
Kaddhafi was done whether or not we did anything to help or not. So sitting there bitching at Obama when we had no real power to affect the outcome is nothing more then the whinings of a party of petulant children who are still pissed 4 years later the American people put the "scary black man" in the White House. And who are even more pissed that they've lost their supposed national security cachet to the Democrats. And what does your side have to show for it? A crazy crackpot dimwitted Congresswoman from the 6th district of Minnesota who is currently channeling Tailgunner Joe and believes that she gets to define treason and patriotism all by herself.
To quote:Either way the result isnt going to be a democracy in Egypt, Libya or evenually Syria…it will be the stated aim of the Brotherhood – an Islamic Theocracy
You may very well be right, David. Or it might turn into a version of Turkey. Time will tell. But short of invading those countries, David, we have no real ability to stop the process that is going on. And if the President ordered the invasion of those countries your party would within the immediate 10 seconds afterwards decide to attack Obama for invading those countries and squelching the nascent democracy in those countries.
WIth you and your party this isn't a rational discussion, as much as you and your party want to claim otherwise, this isn't about the national security of the United States or whats best for this country and the rest of the world.
With you and your party this is about one thing alone: Your party's visceral hatred of the President and your party's willingness to take any position whatsoever that allows you and your party to attack the President no matter what.
as for the Brotherhood's aim of a Islamic Theocracy and your fear of them…let me know when you're going to start being concerned about the stated aim of more then a few Republicans of turning the United States into a Christian theocracy.
Which is half the reason your party created such a hullabaloo about the Democrats supposedly removing God from the party platform.
Your party whores out God on an amazing level. Especially considering there is so little actual Christianity coming from your party.
David: now we have a decade of non-warming and the travesty is that they, the warmists, can't explain it.
A decade of nonwarming? What planet are you living on? Lets see..the Arctic is still melting and we're in the middle of a very bad drought. And my state, Minnesota, has had nothing approaching a normal winter in the last decade.
You, David, live in fantasy world.
"Let me know when you're going to drop the stupid racism because you seem to be saying that blacks are more inclined to be homocidally violent."
That is exactly what I am saying, A mere statement of fact gleened from statistics or….. the actual body count. But the whites a pretty out there as well …
"David asks:7. How is having voter ID racist?
You mean besides the fact that it's designed to do one thing and one thing only? To make damn sure that as few blacks, latinos and other minorities vote?"
And how does it do that , when the ID requirement covers all citizens? Or do you want to divide America into racial categories…like "stupid Black people who cant get ID", .. nar that would be racist and the Democractic party has never ever been a Racist entity that traded on race baiting for political adavantage….not ever ever truly
"So I ask my original question. The President should have had the US military invade those countries in order to keep their dictators in power? "
This is a vexing issue.Which is why I didnt directly comment- yet I still attract a spray of bile from you. Both Obama and the Republicans have the same policy….and its not an easy one. I suspect the Brotherhood was always going to get power, so why not throw steadfast ally / relatively benign dictator ( by midde east standards) under a bus.
Obama did it to Kaddhafi , who was on cordial terms with the US , and let the mob rip him apart. A drone stopped Kaddhafi from fleeing and directly resulted in his death- no trial was ever going happen, hardly an improvement . It was also illegal war conducted by Obama , with consent from Republicians. Democracts protest even legal wars – emocracts must think hypocrisy is a strenght.
Either way the result isnt going to be a democracy in Egypt, Libya or evenually Syria…it will be the stated aim of the Brotherhood – an Islamic Theocracy. Just look at the electrions in Gaza —once in Hamas were never going to allow themselve to be voted out. Just like Hitler got into power through the vote, the end is foreseeable =heck you even have George Santayana quoted on the side bar of this blog.
I guess what I am advocating is support and aid for the only true democracy in the region , Israel. And a policy of Separatism from the rest of the Islam nightmare…..through disengagment , strategic negation of any threats such as nukes , stop all immigration , making the US unattractive for Muslims to want to stay, keep the wolves at arms length with a big stick/gun handy. Is Teddy on mount Rushmore?
You talk about dangerous ideology , to the liberal west , then Islam is the mother of them all. (Well Islam and the DNC – but you knew I was going to say that)
To Ed Darren
What we have here is a failure to communicate….
Intelligent design is "God guiding" the evolutionary process, it is a form of creationism but different as it uses physical evidence of past ages to make sense of how humanity came to be. Creationism is the unscientific extreme position , of a young earth. I believe that this position is over represented in the survey ,as people didnt see the 10000 years they just saw the " God created humans…" part of the sentence and they voted accordingly – the survey should be rejigged.
Intelligent design (ID) is a form of creationism defined as the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." In other words God guides the process. Natural selection is in itself problematic for evolutionary theory…but I digress.
Over 70 percent of Republicans and Democrats belief in creationism- either the extreme young earth version or the ID version.
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who booed and tried to vote down the inclusion of God in the party platform at the convention
You mean where the Democrats attempted to include all faiths including Christianity by not singling out any religion or deity?
Tell me…what's your problem in being respectful to people of all faiths and no faith?
Or do you just like whoring out God?
Sorry, the Democrats never tried to exclude God. They were trying to be respectful of everyone. You know..the opposite of the GOP who seem to think that you have to be white, rich and Christian to be a real American.
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Yes ,and specifically Black Americans…. let the truth set you free.
"As for Obama being a muslim, yeah that may be your stupidest statement. And what was he supposed to do when the Middle East had its Arab Spring? Send in the US military to protect the dictators?"
The Muslim brotherhood is not an Arab Spring….to say so is a far stupider statement.
Let me know when you're going to drop the stupid racism because you seem to be saying that blacks are more inclined to be homocidally violent.
You speak no truth, David.
Oh and by the way..I didn't say the Muslim Brotherhood is the Arab spring. But the time period when a bunch of Arab countries overthrew their dictators is generally called the Arab spring.
And you're still ignoring the point that sometimes when a country engages in democracy that means the people you don't like are going to win. I thought Republicans loved spreading democracy to other countries? Or do you guys only love other countries having democracy when they choose the people you tell them to choose?
So I ask my original question. The President should have had the US military invade those countries in order to keep their dictators in power? You're aware that would have us even more hated in the Arab world right? Not to mention the fact that it would have wasted even more money and even more American lives on a big giant quagmire.
Oh wait..I forgot…you Republicans just love wasting our money on foreign ventures that turn into quagmires that end up getting our soldiers killed for no real reason.
Short of launching several more wars, David, there was very little the United States could do. And then you and your party would be attacking the President for launching those wars.
So really it's time you start being intellectually honest. No matter what Obama did on that subject, or well any other subject, you were never going to be rational and all you are going to do is bitch about the President no matter what.
Which makes what you say completely stupid, completely worthless and totally irrelevent. And the same goes for your party. It's time your party crawls under a rock and dies.
David asks:7. How is having voter ID racist?
You mean besides the fact that it's designed to do one thing and one thing only? To make damn sure that as few blacks, latinos and other minorities vote?
So instead of reaching out to blacks and latinos and other minorities your party has chosen to try to limit their right to vote as much as possible. Why? Because your party has become the party of the angry/scared white man.
It's not like you can claim that it's to prevent voter fraud because there's very little voter fraud and what little voter fraud actually takes place isn't going to be stopped by Voter ID.
W had his DOJ spend 5 years looking for voter fraud. In that 5 years and out of millions of votes cast…they found all of 86 examples.
Not 86,000. Not 860,000….86. as in 14 short of a 100. And most of those were former felons voting when they didn't have the right to vote…which Voter ID will not stop. You want proof of that? Tell me….does your drivers license indicate whether or not you've been in prison?
Hm..and gee I wonder why certain areas of the south (ie. the red states) are trying to get out of the Voters Right act provisions…
How could there are so many American think that Obama is a Moslem. He always states that he is a Christian.
James said:
6. Gun do not kill people; people do
"Then pray tell why if you take the populations of Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia you have roughly the same population as the United States….. and we have more gun crimes then they do. What? Americans are just more predisposed to homocidal violence?"
Yes ,and specifically Black Americans…. let the truth set you free.
"As for Obama being a muslim, yeah that may be your stupidest statement. And what was he supposed to do when the Middle East had its Arab Spring? Send in the US military to protect the dictators?"
The Muslim brotherhood is not an Arab Spring….to say so is a far stupider statement.
1. "58% of Republicans are creationist. "Arithmetic," Clinton said. Get some."
Actually its "statistics" and over 70% of both Democrats and Republicans believe in intelligent design or creationism. Which means the Democratic convention representatives , who booed and tried to vote down the inclusion of God in the party platform at the convention – are unrepresentative swill. Got to love the 'soviet' style way 'God' was finally included though….
2. "For all his bluster, Reagan raised taxes at least 11 times, and Trickle down didn't work — but instead stopped the boom that would otherwise have carried into what we now call the Clinton administration. See Nobel-winner Paul Krugman for the mainstream economics (i.e., not radical) view: "
Clinton got in because Bush was now Regan and Bush broke his "read my lips Promise". Yes it was a betrayal and he got punished for it. As for Krugman being mainstream…maybe , he's ideologically Keyensian and a Democratic party partisan so has a bias with regard to Reagan's policies and legacy. He's a man who frankly believes that the US should continue to go into debt, to spur a recovery, and if the economy does not recover …then the stimulus package wasnt big enough. How big should it be..we will know when the economy recovers…his perscription is that obtuse.
3. "There is no fraud in global warming, except by those who have hoodwinked you into thinking that this crisis is a hoax. I'll wager you're a closet creationist, and you have grave doubts that any human ever walked on the Moon. Am I right?"
Crisis….where? Computer models that predict crises that have continually not happened…now we have a decade of non-warming and the travesty is that they, the warmists, can't explain it. But you believe , because belief comes first and evidence is shoe horned in. You scream the sky is falling , and you discount any contrary view, there's no comfort that the AGW theory maybe overstated, just shrill denoucations….sounds like your being the dogmatic Church to the sceptics ( or should that be denier) Galileo.
"The "actual Christian" who wishes to follow Jesus's teachings has no home in the Republican Party, which believes poverty is a sin rather than the failing to help the poor, ……"
I think the Republicans want to create the jobs first , this is done through building investor confidence, keeping taxation low and cutting regulatory red tape to spur economic activity and jobs grow….all else follows this. What point training if no demand? Obama has failed in adequate jobs growth so he's on the hand out trail….this will probably will work seeing half country is getting Government handouts of some sort. I do laugh when you try and get Jesus on the side of big Government – no Republicans do not believe that poverty is a sin , but a growing economy is the way to best manage it….how do you propose to fund the programs while in debt and without the tax revenues. Your like a child who thinks money can just be printed forever….opps, thats already happening , goodbye US dollar.
4. "Socialist? Obviously you don't understand what socialism is, how it works, and it may be you don't understand capitalism, either, if you think capitalism is socialism. Or were you referring to something else? "
As a political movement, socialism includes a diverse array of political philosophies – how about expanding the welfare state, redistribution of wealth , class struggle(we are the 99% anybody), identity politics and equality of OUTCOMES, and micro managing choices that its citizens can make through a high regulatory environment. See Nordic and EU models .
4.A. —"Favoring Muslims? Are you really that tone deaf and event blind? He attends Christian churches. He says he's Christian. He's never studied Islam to ……."
Attending a Black theology church doesnt a Christian make.He made the fawning Cairo speech, he bowed to Saudi oil despots, he has instructed NASA to out reach to Muslims and make them feel good about their small contributions to science. He has allowed the Muslim brotherhood control of Egypt- which will increase the oppression on the Coptic Christian minority and heighten tension with Israel. Guess whose side Obama will take it there is a conflagration between the two nations. He has engaged in an illegalwar , no approval sort from congress, to topple Kaddafi who had reformed himself considerably, but better anarchy and brownie points with the Arabs. Still waiting for Syria to be taken over by the Brotherhood and the massacre of Christians and Alawites to begin. Obama will surely avert his eyes to it so as to not offend Muslim sensibilities as they purge the nation of non Muslims.
5. "Yes, the GOP tried to get Akin to drop out. However, Ryan didn't renounce his sponsorship of the Akins amendment, to redefine rape in federal law to fit Akins's odd views. In fact, no Republican did. Several elected GOP people came to Akins's defense. It's not that Akins's views are offensive, stupid, wrong, unjust and expensive to taxpayers, it's that the rest of the GOP was outed on sharing those misogynistic views."
Akin's views aren't odd, they are quite normal , in the context that all life is sacred. Congress has prohibited the use of Federal funds for abortion for more than three decades – except in cases of rape, incest and physical danger for the mother. That Akins supports this is odd??? Meanwhile Obama's infanticide belief is in his senate voting record….odd? Obama also believes in same sex marriage…mmmh, is that not odd for a Christian? Then there him sitting in that church as the racist Good Rev Wright denounced white society …mmmh odd? Then there's his let's take from the rich and give to the less rich….odd? Then there's his Affordable health care act which isn't a tax ..but it is? His bowing to Arabs…odd? Then there's the fact that he thinks the Maldives are off the coast of Argentina, that he thinks that there is more than 50 States in America and thinks American armies are full of dead people …that is corpses. How about stopping the waters rising…well it wasn't rising anyhow so I'll give him that foolish grandiose promise anyway. So if you obtusely come to the conclusion that Republicans are misogynistic drawn from some desperate need to assume some moral high horse then Obama is a bumbling , racist , anti-Christian, anti-marriage, socialist, lying, delusional, also misogynistic, child killing Muslim …to be consistent with your hateful disparaging reductive style.
6. "Crazy people with guns kill lots of people. Alas, the GOP wishes to do nothing to stop crazies from getting guns. Many Americans die. It's a tragedy."
Supreme courts have re affirmed the right to bear arms….silly billy. So tell us how to stop the crazies from getting guns? Then knives like in Britain? If your party had balls they would go for a constitutional amendment…..
7. "Everything you claim on voter fraud is dead wrong — plus, voter ID laws do absolutely nothing to stop any voter fraud found in the past 30 years. "
How is having voter ID racist? Wow …driving a car, means getting a license , is that racist? Is providing ID for a credit card racist? Play the race card and it gets so boring. by getting ID actually improves a person's prospects…it allows them entry proper into society…but the DNC wants them to be "Brown and Down" just like in the Democratic glory days of Jim Crowand the KKK. What did your great grand dady do? Still got the sheets? A cheap shot yes, but when your party specifically makes whole racial/ethnic groups clients of the government , you are disempowering them , for misguided or cynical political purposes.
Enough for the moment. Gotta go.
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6. Gun do not kill people; people do
Then pray tell why if you take the populations of Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia you have roughly the same population as the United States…..
and we have more gun crimes then they do.
What? Americans are just more predisposed to homocidal violence? Or do gun control laws actually work?
As for Obama being a muslim, yeah that may be your stupidest statement. And what was he supposed to do when the Middle East had its Arab Spring? Send in the US military to protect the dictators?
Sorry, child, you're still an idiot.
The Middle East was lurching towards democracy during the Arab Spring and sometimes in a democracy the people who you don't necessarily like win.
Thank you for proving that you have a problem with democracy.
Child, if you think we Catholics are going to abandon the Democrat party because they tried to put into federal law a rule that has existed as a rule of the EEOC for the last 12 years and then when the church for some stupid reason objected then you are in for a rude surprise. If we Catholics really had such a problem with the rule then why didn't we Catholics object to the rule existing for 11.5 of its 12 years existance? Sorry, that whole hullaballo is nothing more then one more example of the church hierarchy trying to jump the church into the bed of the far right wing. You're not going to see Catholics abandon the Democrat party, you're more likely to see the Catholics abandon the GOP for their anti-Christ like behavior when it comes to the safety net of the middle class and the poor.
And yes..exactly that much of the GOP opposes evolution and yes the religious right is one of the groups that controls the GOP.
Then there is the fact that the GOP during the 2004 election got 40% of the hispanic vote and I'd be surprised if they get 1% of the hispanic vote this year. Why? Because while George W Bush was smart enough to do outreach to the country's hispanics the rest of the part was stupid enough to do nothing but insult them at every turn since then. You guys have 0% of the vote among this country's blacks and I'm willing to bet it's going to be a similar percentage with this country's hispanics.
Secondly no Obama and the Democrats are not socialists. You have no idea what the damn word means. But thank you for proving that you and the rest of the GOP are nothing but fascists and wannabe Nazi's…
No trickle down did work at any point in time. All it's done is create massive debts and that is all its done for 40 years now. Meanwhile it's given massive tax cuts to the 1%, screwed over everyone else, and let the rich massively enrich themselves by stagnating the wages of everyone else.
You simply don't know what you're talking about.
Actually, it pretty much "sums up" Democrat obtuseness and electioneering propaganda (but I repeat myself).
1. The vast majority of Republicans believe in evolution, and no, the so-called "religious right" do not make up the majority of the GOP or the conservative movement. See the Vatican's take on evolution, for example. It is true that actual Christian have no real home in the Democrat Party, and if you think otherwise, watch the Catholic vote this year, but this is not the fault of the GOP.
2. Trickle down did indeed work. Have a look at the Reagan years.
3. Global Warming is bunk, at least AGW. (boy you alarmist are going to have an embarrassing old age on that score, or you would if you were capable of either shame or embarrassment, but then you are a Democrat.) This fraud has been outed, and the rest of the world knows if even if you do not.
4. Obama most certainly is Socialist, it is absurd to claim otherwise, and he certainly favors the Muslims. His disastrous "Foreign Policy" has undone 60 years of work in the ME to stave off Muslim extremists. Now the Muslim brotherhood rules in Egypt of all places. This cannot be merely incompetence, it is by design.
5. All of the senior GOP leadership tried to get Akin to drop out, and the rank and file GOP turned its back on him. Given the absolutely loony and loopy garbage we have got out of Ms. Warren or Frankle (and really just about any of the more advanced Democrat Marxists), one would think that Democrats would have the decency to keep their yaps shut, but then they are Democrats so decency is beyond them. Warren looks set to lose; what if Akin wins?
6. Gun do not kill people; people do. This is a truly losing argument for the Democrats, and if you do not know it certainly the leadership does.
7. The Democrats cannot win without voter fraud. It is common knowledge that most contested elections require at least %2 margin, and often a %5 one, in order to beat the Democrat's voter fraud machine, and you would know that if you had any actual involvement with elections. If this were not true than let us go ahead with voter id laws (and yes, those poor people already have ID's, they have to in order to get the government freebees-in). You evidently do not know your own party. I can tell you that the crooks and liars that run the Democrat Party depend on useful idiots like you to get away with their fraud.
Meanwhile the Democrats have:
1. Unions.
3. Inner city welfare bums.
4. Abortion
5. Sodomy
6. the Nanny State
7. a Rabid hatred of white people
8. An equally rabid hatred of the middle class
9. An even greater hatred for Christian and practicing Jews.
And the fact that they are a bunch of lying, parasitic communists.
(and the list goes on and on.)
As usual, you have a tenuous grip on reality and merely put forward red herrings and straw men, and then engage in insults.
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The concierge service is changing. With less working hours and virtual offerings, investors and renters are less willing to pay, so does this mark the end of the concierge.
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Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, took the crown in this year's Miss America beauty pageant. It was the 87th year of the competition, and Davuluri was one of two Asian-Americans in the final round. Although she's just a few days into her reign, Davuluri has already made history. She's the first Indian-American Miss America.
Her win highlights how far the U.S. has come, but also how far the country has to go: Racist tweets flooded in on Twitter right after her victory.
Miss America told Tell Me More host Michel Martin about the moment she was crowned, redefining American beauty and more.
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Being the first Miss America of South Asian descent
I have always viewed Miss America as the girl next door, but the girl next door is evolving as the diversity in America evolves. She's not who she was 10 years ago, and she's not going to be the same person come 10 years down the road.
Reacting to ugly tweets
It's a difficult situation, and that was something I experienced even as Miss New York. That being said, for every one negative tweet or comment that I have seen or received, I have received dozens of positive words of encouragement, support and love.
Representing New York on 9/11
One of the preliminary rounds of competition fell on Sept. 11. To stand on that stage and announce myself as Miss New York, and I said the Freedom Tower stands tall as a symbol of our nation's resilience and unity. Just having that experience was so meaningful and so special.
Following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams
Well first let me just comment on Vanessa Williams, because she was a former Miss Syracuse, and I was also a former Miss Syracuse. We both went on to win the Miss New York title in two very historic Miss Americas. It was exactly 30 years ago to the date, Sept. 15, we were both crowned. So that's just so surreal.
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program, we will head into the Beauty Shop and ask our panel of women journalists and commentators for their thoughts on beauty. We're sparked by a surprising recent revelation by a public figure. But first, we are joined now by a newsmaker in the world of beauty. Nina Davuluri is the first American of Indian descent to take the Miss America crown. Here's a clip from this weekend's event.
NINA DAVULURI: I am most excited to promote my platform, celebrating diversity through cultural competency. I was the first Indian Miss New York, and I'm so proud to be the first Indian Miss America.
MARTIN: Miss America, Nina Davuluri, is with us now. Congratulations. Welcome.
DAVULURI: Thank you so much for having me.
MARTIN: Unfortunately, we're in different cities, so I can't see whether you're wearing your crown or not.
DAVULURI: I'm not.
MARTIN: It would be kind of hard to fit under the headphones, but can you take us back to the moment? Was it like time slowing down? What was it like?
DAVULURI: Yes, it was very surreal, out-of-body experience, being there in the final two. I was holding hands with Miss California, Crystal Lee, and we were both standing there at such a historic moment - two Asian-Americans who were going to take the title and to be a new symbol of hope and encouragement. I've always viewed Miss America as the girl next door, but the girl next door is evolving as the diversity in America evolves.
She's not who she was 10 years ago, and she's not going to be the same person come 10 years down the road, and to be able to promote that this year and to encourage all young girls, regardless of their race, their background, their religion, socioeconomic status, that they can truly live the American dream because that's what I'm doing right now.
MARTIN: Well, you're not the first Asian-American Miss America. That would have been 2001's Angela Perez Baraquio. She's of Filipino descent. But as you pointed out, there were five Asian-Americans competing for the crown. That's the highest number in pageant history. Three of you were in the top five. Two of you were the finalists, and this in a contest where initially the requirements were that contestants be of good health and of the white race. And more to the point, you didn't shy away from your heritage at all. I mean, well, your talent was a Bollywood number, which was quite fun...
DAVULURI: Yes.
MARTIN: ...And exciting. But a lot of support and a lot of excitement about your victory and also, on social media, some real ugliness. Some people just seem to be waiting to say some ugly things. Miss America, you mean Miss 7-Eleven.
DAVULURI: Right.
MARTIN: Nine-eleven was four days ago, and she gets Miss America. Congratulations, al-Qaeda, our Miss America is one of you. I mean, I apologize, but, you know, what do you make of that?
DAVULURI: Yeah.
MARTIN: What do you think that's about?
DAVULURI: Yeah, it's a difficult situation, and that was something I experienced even as Miss New York. That being said, for every one negative tweet or comment that I have seen or received, I have received dozens of positive words of encouragement, support and love. One of the preliminary rounds of competition fell on September 11th. To stand on that stage and announce myself as Miss New York, and I said, the Freedom Tower stands tall as a symbol of our nation's resilience and unity - just having that experience was so meaningful and so special.
MARTIN: Why do you think you won? I know it's kind of unfair to ask you that. You won because you're awesome of course. Why do you think you won? What do you think took you over the top?
DAVULURI: Well, goodness. You know, it's so difficult to say because I really was with 52 other Miss Americas, and anyone could have done the job. But I really believed that -right now my platform is celebrating diversity through cultural competency, and it is so timely and so relevant.
MARTIN: Why did you decide to start competing? I talked to Vanessa Williams, who was the first African-American Miss America back in 1983, and she in fact entered not as - quite as a joke, but it was not her heart's desire. She did in fact...
DAVULURI: Right.
MARTIN: ...Enter for the scholarship money and a lot of other contestants do, too. But there's a lot of training involved, a lot of preparation.
DAVULURI: Absolutely.
MARTIN: What got you started on this to begin with?
DAVULURI: Well, first, let me just comment on Vanessa Williams because she was a former Miss Syracuse, and I was also a former Miss Syracuse. We both went on to win the Miss New York title and both two very historic Miss Americas. It was exactly 30 years ago to the date, September 15th, we were both crowned. So that's just so surreal, but I was in the same situation. I actually competed in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen program, and through that, I won $25,000 in scholarship money, and with that money and help of my parents, I was able to graduate debt-free from the University of Michigan. I took about five years off from the pageant world and, you know, took time to finish my undergraduate degree. And I'm in the process of applying to medical school right now, and I have zero funds for my education. That was a large part of why I came back to the organization, and I now have a total of 60,000 to put towards that, which is amazing.
MARTIN: Are you really going to go, or is that just something you just told your parents?
DAVULURI: (Laughing) I'm really going to go. I mean, I took the MCAT. I finished all my requirements. I'm ready for it, and hoping now, with this title, my application stands out a little more.
MARTIN: What area of practice are you hoping for? It's going to be a while, obviously...
DAVULURI: It is.
MARTIN: ...Because you have your reign, and then you got to go apply and go to school and...
DAVULURI: Yeah, it certainly is. My degree in undergrad was in brain behavior and cognitive science, and I really loved it. So psychiatry is definitely on the radar, but not ruling anything out.
MARTIN: OK, if you go into plastic surgery, I'm going to be kind of mad.
DAVULURI: No.
DAVULURI: You'll know my thoughts about that based on my final answer.
MARTIN: I've wanted to ask you about this. We're talking in the next segment about this whole, again, interest in being light-skinned in some other countries...
DAVULURI: Yeah.
MARTIN: ...Including...
DAVULURI: Oh, my, goodness. Yeah.
MARTIN: ...The country of your heritage, in India. What do you make of that?
DAVULURI: Yes, it's so unfortunate. And so, in India, you know, the lighter or more fair skin you are, you're supposedly considered more beautiful. And I grew up with that, you know, in my own household because my parents are from India. So my family would always say, oh, don't go out in the sun, you're going to get too dark, or things like that. But then with my peers, they would say, oh, my goodness, you're so tan. Your skin is so beautiful. And it's really sad that we always try to attain those ideals that aren't important.
MARTIN: Well, what are you going to do during your reign as Miss America, my Queen?
DAVULURI: Well, I travelled across the country. I am - apparently, Miss America is not in one place for more than 48 hours. So I'll be traveling all across America, of course, promoting my platform which I spoke about, but also being an ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. And so I'll be visiting hospitals all across the country, as well as promoting STEM education - science, technology, engineering and math.
MARTIN: So the idea being that you can both be...
DAVULURI: Beauty and brains.
MARTIN: Beauty and brains. That's right. So how is it so far? You're only a couple days into your reign. How is it?
DAVULURI: It's been an amazing, incredible opportunity. The support and love that I have received from so many different people has been so warming and heartfelt. Unfortunately, I was whisked away. I hadn't had much time to spend with my family, but it's going to be an amazing ride.
MARTIN: Nina Davuluri is Miss America. Here she is, and she was kind enough to join us from our studios in New York. Miss America, Nina Davuluri, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations, once again.
DAVULURI: Thank you so much for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Betony Vernon Is Known For Her Erotic Jewelry Design, But the S&M Enthusiast Isn't Chained To One Artistic Outlet. She Works With Marble and Text In Her Next Two Projects, Spreading the Doctrine Of Sex-Positivity With Each Notch She Adds To Her Belt
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How important is it to spotlight sex in art right now?
BETONY VERNON Art and sex have often shared the same spotlight, and this will never change. After all, the creative process, just like sex, is driven by desire.
What kind of feedback have you gotten over the years? Has it become less prudish?
BV Yes, things have changed for the better since 1992, when I first started to design the Sado-Chic collections. I stayed in creative hiding then, for fear of ruining my business in the fashion world. I think it was about ten years ago that V first published my whip collar. If everyone had been as forward thinking as V at the time, my mission in sexual well-being would have advanced at a faster pace!
Tell us about the group show you're in.
BV I was invited to participate in the "Kama-Sex & Design" show at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan just a few days after visiting Henraux, one of the most prestigious marble companies in the world. When Silvana Annicchiarico, the curator of the exhibition, told me that she wanted to dedicate one of the museum's eight galleries to my work, I felt a bit nervous, not only because of the prestigious list of participating designers (which included architect Andrea Branzi, who happened to be my favorite teacher at Dumus Accademy) but also because of the mere scale of the room. When I hung up the phone, I had a flash, and I immediately called Paolo Carli, the owner of Henraux. I asked him if he would be interested in realizing one of my designs in marble for the show. He agreed to sponsor the Origin monument (which has yet to be unveiled) and its declination, the Origin chair, that will be on exhibition at the Triennale until March 10, 2013.
How is sex represented in the Internet Age, and how is that different from its previous representations?
BV Before the onslaught of the Internet, the sexual image was still somewhat secret, hard to come by and therefore somehow still sacred. Today, sex equals pornography online. Never in the history of mankind has our sexuality been treated more as a commodity than it is today. If the diffusion of pornography was as profuse as the diffusion of concrete sexual understanding in relation to enhanced pleasure and sexual well being, our society would certainly be more satisfied.
My question is: How do we bring the sacred back into sex? I provide some answers in my upcoming book, The Boudoir Bible. Before the advent of monotheism, sex was considered by every society to be the most surefire means to come into contact with one's higher self, one's partner, and even the divine.
Where does underexposure end and overexposure begin?
BV While overexposure to porn is proven to have negative effects on our real sex lives, I don't think that there would be any negative consequences to "overexposure" of concrete sexual information in regards to enhanced pleasure.
Your sculptures conjure memories of works by Louise Bourgeois. Is she an inspiration?
BV I am flattered by your association. Louise Bourgeois is one of my favorite artists. We obviously share a similar fascination with sex, and the body in general.
Working so closely with sex as a theme must in some ways stimulate you—or does it desensitize you?
BV I nourish my libido every day, in one way or another. My sex life is a priority and my sexual satisfaction is central to my overall well being: physical, emotional and even spiritual. My creative drive, art, design, however you wish to describe it, feeds into this overall sense of well being. I am aware that my work makes people happy, and this too makes me all the more happy and healthy and serene.
How is sculpting different from jewelry designing, and how is it the same?
BV When I designed the Origin chair, I felt as if I was designing a giant piece of jewelry. Some of the tools and techniques that I learned to sculpt marble are similar to those that I use to carve jeweler's wax. The process of sculpting either of these materials is also similar, in that the process is deductive. What proved to be a truly different and new experience for me, was working on a monumental scale. The Origin monument is nearly three meters tall and was carved from a mass of pure white statuary marble that initially weighed seventeen tons. Today, the (near-finished) work weighs approximately one and a half tons. Working with such an enormous block of material obviously demanded a totally different set of tools and a strong, dedicated equip of skilled men.
Are some people better at sex?
BV Some people say that butchers have higher libidos. I say that we musnt categorize or pigeonhole each other.
And tell me about your book, which is out today on Rizzoli International.
BV The Boudoir Bible-The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today, illustrated by Francois Berthoud, is my first book. It is the fruit of years of personal experience, research, and private and public consulting with both couples and individuals. I have been told it is the long awaited sequel to The Joy of Sex, but I recently heard myself describing it in a nutshell as "every shade but grey." Although The Boudoir Bible covers the "fundamentals," which I think every man and woman, regardless of their sexual orientation, should, but do not necessarily know, my main objective is to dismantle the limiting categories by which society defines sexuality, and to explode the clichés and fears that hold people back from developing their greatest sexual and sensual potential. It is also an initiation to what I call the "Sexual Ceremony"—an ecstatic ritual that entails lengthy sessions of love-making. The true extent of our body's capacity to attain and provide pleasure cannot be experienced unless we transcend the doldrums of fast, phallocentric, everyday sex.
You want sex to stay mysterious, and yet you would like an open dialogue to take place about it. How does that work?
BV We mustn't confuse sexual ignorance with mystery. Don't worry, there is nothing that can kill the mystery of sex, and acquiring sexual knowledge and skills will only serve to enhance and amplify the fabulous benefits of the mysterious forces of sexual love.
Are there any rules you have when it comes to sex?
BV Consent, Communication, and Caring are essential rules for great sex. As long as the sexual encounter is enjoyed by sexually mature and consenting adults, and no one's wishes or innocence are being infringed upon, the only other rules that come to mind regard safety. Fluid exchange is a privilege that must be reserved for healthy lovers in a monogamous relationship. Safe sex is sexy… and it is relative to certain sexual tools, too. In order to provide your lover the pleasures of flagellation or restraint for example, you need to have some skills under your belt in order to play safe! The Boudoir Bible is your guide to the higher dimensions of the sexual realm. It is an initiation to the body, as well as to the tools and techniques that make it tick to maximum pleasure capacity, and safely!


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Hardening a storage system so that it has the resiliency that you need to remain operational through an I/O error, drive failure, or power failure is very difficult. The system should tolerate deletions, cleaning, rebuilding a drive, multiple drive failures, and power failures—all without data loss or corruption.
While always important in storage, it's an even bigger consideration in backup and archiving with deduplication. With deduplication solutions, there may be 1,000 backup images that rely on a single copy of source data. Therefore, this source data needs to be kept accessible, with a high level of data integrity.
We ensure data integrity in EMC Data Domain systems with the EMC Data Domain data invulnerability architecture, which tests recovery end to end—through the file system and to the disk platter—during each backup and recovery operation.


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Outside Pittsburgh, they are proclaiming a strike, taking to Twitter and Facebook to spread the word. In a village near Milwaukee, hundreds staged a boycott. In a small farming and ranching community in western Kansas, they have produced a parody video. And in Parsippany, N.J., the protest is six days old and counting.
They are high school students, and their complaint is about lunch — healthier, smaller and more expensive than ever.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which required public schools to follow new nutritional guidelines this academic year to receive extra federal lunch aid, has created a nationwide version of the age-old parental challenge: persuading children to eat what is good for them.
Because the lunches must now include fruits and vegetables, those who clamor for more cheese-laden nachos may find string beans and a peach cup instead. Because of limits on fat and sodium, some of those who crave French fries get baked sweet-potato wedges. Because of calorie restrictions, meat and carbohydrate portions are smaller. Gone is 2-percent chocolate milk, replaced by skim.
"Before, there was no taste and no flavor," said Malik Barrows, a senior at Automotive High School in Brooklyn, who likes fruit but said his classmates threw away their mandatory helpings on the cafeteria floor. "Now there's no taste, no flavor and it's healthy, which makes it taste even worse."
Students organized lunch strikes in a suburb of Pittsburgh, where in late August the hashtag "brownbagginit" was trending on Twitter, and outside Milwaukee, where the Mukwonago High School principal, Shawn McNulty, said participation in the lunch program had fallen 70 percent.
"There is a reduction in nacho chips, there is a reduction in garlic bread, but there's actually an increase in fruits and vegetables," Mr. McNulty said. "That's a tough sell for kids, and I would be grumbling, too, if I was 17 years old."
In New Jersey, more than 1,200 people have joined a Facebook group that urges Parsippany Hills High School students to boycott the school lunches. Despite the enticement of a Chinese-themed lunch a week ago Friday, the first day of the strike, only a few students bought anything from the cafeteria, according to the strike organizers.
The set lunch that cost $2.50 last year now costs $2.60. The cafeteria still offers pizza, French fries and chicken nuggets, but all of the servings have shrunk. And the packaged baby carrots and apples that each student must take before leaving the lunch line usually end up in the trash, said Brandon Faris, a boycott organizer.
"Everybody in the school's like, 'Have you seen the lunch prices? It's ridiculous!' " said Brandon, who derided the Chinese food as a "bribe." "The portion of the meal went down; the price should also go down."
According to the new restrictions, high school lunches must be no more than 850 calories, middle school lunches no more than 700 calories and elementary school lunches no more than 650. Before, there were no maximums.
At the same time, prices have gone up about 10 cents in many districts for students who do not qualify for free lunch, both to pay for fresh fruits and vegetables and to obey a federal requirement that lunch prices gradually increase to help cover their cost.
In Sharon Springs, Kan., lunch protesters at Wallace County High School posted a video on YouTube, "We Are Hungry"; in it, students faint in the hallways and during physical education class, acting as if they had been done in by meager helpings of potato puff casserole and chicken nuggets. To the tune of the song "We Are Young" by Fun, one student on the video sings, "My friends are at the corner store, getting junk so they don't waste away."
Since it was uploaded three weeks ago, "We Are Hungry" has had nearly 900,000 views.
Callahan Grund, a junior who stars in the video, said, "My opinion as a young farmer and rancher is that we produced this protein and it's not being used to its full advantage." He wakes up early every morning to do chores, stays after school for two hours of football practice and returns home for another round of chores. If it were not for the lunches his mother now packs him, he said, he would be hungry again just two hours after lunch.
In New York City, where school officials introduced whole-wheat breads, low-fat milk and other changes several years ago, the most noticeable change this year is the fruit and vegetable requirement, which has resulted in some waste, according to Eric Goldstein, the Education Department official who oversees food services. It is not hard to see why. At Middle School 104 in Gramercy Park on Friday, several seventh graders pronounced vegetables "gross."
"I just throw them out," said Danielson Gutierrez, 12, carrying a slice of pizza, which he had liberally sprinkled with seasonings, and a pear. He also offered his opinion on fruit: "I throw them out, too. I only like apples."
Courtney Rowe, a spokeswoman for the United States Department of Agriculture, which sets school food regulations, said that despite the complaints about lighter lunches, federal audits showed the average high school lunch before this year contained only 730 calories, less than the minimum number of calories they must now contain, 750.
Of course, students may not be eating all the calories they are being served, though Ms. Rowe noted that in most schools, students have the option of buying additional food à la carte.
Sandra Ford, president of the School Nutrition Association, said food service directors were using a variety of strategies to get students to embrace the new menus, including asking teachers to talk about healthy food in class, conducting taste tests, handing out free samples and educating students about how their food is grown and made.
But the most effective strategy, several food service directors said, may simply be waiting. Research shows that children must be exposed to vegetables 10 to 12 times before they will eat them on their own, said William J. McCarthy, a professor of public health and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"If our task is to get young kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, we have to be willing to put up with the waste," he said.
Few school districts have been as extreme in their efforts as Los Angeles, which introduced a menu of quinoa salads, lentil cutlets, vegetable curry, pad Thai and other vegetarian fare last fall. When students began rejecting the lunches en masse, the district replaced some of the more exotic dishes with more child-friendly foods, like pizza with whole-wheat crust, low-fat cheese and low-sodium sauce.
But this year, even the whole-wheat pizza is gone, replaced by calzones, fajitas and other, smaller entrees with side dishes of fruits and vegetables.
Nicole Anthony, the cafeteria manager at one Los Angeles school, Nimitz Middle School in Huntington Park, estimated that out of the 1,800 students, almost all of whom qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch, only 1,200, "on a good day," now eat the cafeteria's offerings.
Ms. Anthony is not optimistic that the students will warm to their new lunches anytime soon — not as long as they can buy Flamin' Hot Cheetos from the vending machines or brownies from the student store for lunch.
"Why would I come over here for a chicken and apple when I can get a cookie and some Gatorade and some gummies?" she said. "What would you choose?"


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